Red hot burning love for Brian Topp, and other notes from the NDP leadership race

BY ROB SALERNO – As the federal NDP’s leadership race enters its final eight weeks, Xtra is examining what the candidates are offering queer Canadians as prospective leaders of the country’s most leftwing party.

Rob Salerno is a playwright and journalist whose writing has appeared in such publications as Vice, Advocate, NOW and OutTraveler.

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